Art Out-of-Doors 
Some pendulous trees do form accents, 
but they are of sturdier habit than the 
weeping willow. There is a garden variety 
of beech, for instance, which we call the 
weeping beech; but it does not lament in 
as weak and watery a way as the willow. 
It would look very much out of place in a 
landscape-picture of an extremely natural- 
istic type ; but where the desired effect is 
what old English gardeners used to call 
“polished” — where it is a distinctly gar- 
denesque effect — then a weeping beech may 
look well ; and best of all where it stands 
in a palpably artificial scene yet is sup- 
ported by great neighboring masses of rock. 
I should be sorry to see the fine weeping 
beeches removed from the West Drive in 
Central Park, but I should be still more 
sorry to see them turned into weeping 
willows. 
In a rural spot, a cottage with a weeping 
willow beside it looks better than a naked 
cottage ; but another tree would still more 
clearly express, by its greater sturdiness, the 
idea of comfortable protection. But the 
very worst place of all for a weeping willow, 
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